The issues are mainly due to the frustration people feel when they die in a situation that seems unfair. I.e. around a corner, behind cover, damage compression. A lot of this isn't really avoidable in any kind of online game where you have people playing from distant places, some games suffer more than others.

I completely agree that for every time you kill someone around a corner, you're more likely to be screwed over yourself. Not to mention that you have to constantly fight with server-side delays (terminals, vehicles, shield, cloak, etc.) and delayed feedback on hits registering.

They don't hate you personally, although they may disapprove of your choice to play on a server that isn't as local as it could be, but the hate for how a game compensates for latency gets directed towards you.

Welcome to shitter side, raging fat nerd children patrol these areas. They take any chance they can to spread hate, So they can feel better about their pathetic lives. There are decent people playing this game, just takes some time to find them.

Incidentally, there is a difference between connection quality and ping. Connection quality is just a measure of packet loss (which is basically only going to affect the bad connection user in lost hit packets, not the person he is going against). 1% loss gets you a "poor connection" will 2+% or there abouts gets you "bad connection".

There was a couple of days when they were toying with the EU server routing and one of the ISPs was dropping 3% of the packets and 40% of the players were being routed through there. You know what we noticed with 40% of the server pop having 3% packet loss? Nothing.

Now.. extremely high ping is a completely different beast and can really screw up gameplay for all parties involved.

Problem are lagswitchers (they are not exactly hacks, but come on, I don't believe it when ally starts to warp exactly before the engagement and then it's perfectly fine). Or lags en masse (I raise you fighting FOG or RUSK or RUSS or RUS or LPS or any other of thousands of russian outfits on miller), when whole squad warps as fuck and you are being OHK by three people at once, you too would want to log off.

Complaining about your bad connection is a bit like sneezing in someone's face and then complaining because you have a cold. People can be sympathetic to your problems up to the point where your problems start becoming theirs. I'm not saying you should quit the game to spare the rest of us, but don't ask for or expect much sympathy here.

I feel you. Connery was recently flooded with Korean "lagwizards". It sucks to have to deal with it, but they just want to play the game. I can't say I wouldn't brave the 200ms connection if I were them.

My connection is very good, even to America and I play strictly on Emerald (I'm from UK). Sometimes I still get shot around corners and through solid objects. I don't know whether its a good idea to limit instances like this to just a connection issue.

Hes doing it from a position of ignorance .. stating that "it doesn't matter to people shooting me". He actually says theres not a problem .... so how can he complain about people complaining about him if there is no problem ... its a cycle of nuts!

Can speak from experience in that this is incorrect ..... so try to help ... he then simply says he cant do anything.

If he doesn't want people to complain about him .. admit theres a problem .. do something about it .. or accept the complaints.

You know, you could actually believe that he has researched this and talked with players who confirmed he behaves just fine on their client and realize the internet is more complex than you realize. HIS lag COULD only be affecting HIS client, not yours.

I took his post to be speaking of the general complaint about people with lag, not him specifically. So if I misunderstood there, my bad.

Network engineer by trade for one of the largest ISP's so I know more about how complex the internet is than you could fathom....

Largest ISPs have some of the worst networking issues and quite possibly some of the most incompetent employees because they can hide behind other people who know what they're doing. Fairly certain most people just roll their eyes and skip to the next comment when people start trying to brag about IRL accomplishments..

Largest ISPs have some of the worst networking issues and quite possibly some of the most incompetent employees

Thats some sad as shit ad hominem with absolutely no base ... so according to you major ISPS controlling over a third of connectivity of an entire country don't know what their doing (with a staff of 10 ... so no one to hide behind you callous shit-heel)? It all works VIA MAGIC!!! The larger the network the more chance for networking issues ... but jesus thats a stretch ... so far a stretch you've dislocated a shoulder ... its pathetic.

So yeah.. you're a moron and know nothing of how networking works... as far as you're aware its done by sacrificing a goat via ker plah ... and by pointing a router towards "mecca" ... congrats you're a dipshit.

Lol, well that was worth the entertainment. I'm glad large ISPs apparently hire based on reddit karma.. I feel as if I'm in much better hands, thank you for your service even though it requires you to do mean nasty things to goats.